Jazz fans may just be discovering monet, but she isn’t new to the poetry world. She won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam in 2007 and published her first book three years later.

In Owele, poet Sihle Ntuli embarks on a deeply personal return, not to a single place, but to a confluence of memory, language, and landscape. As rivers flow through the hills of KwaZulu-Natal, Ntuli ...

Noa has always been fascinated by the intersection of music, language and race. This passion led her to study jazz poetry — a genre in which poetry’s rhythms and cadences merge seamlessly with musical ...

When he left the world in 1967, he left behind a massive body of work, including poems, poetry books, novels, plays, essays ...

National poetry month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, and encourages people to pay attention to and enjoy poetry. Here are some ways to celebrate around D.C.

One might say that Montgomery originated an Irish form of jazz-inspired sound poetry distinguished by its polyphony. The ...

I hope you liked my haiku. Some say April is the cruelest month, but with its showers come National Poetry Month AND Jazz Appreciation Month. Dive into all the verse and jazz GBH has to offer, ...

Listen to live music and poetry, learning about Black history and support Black culture in celebration of Juneteenth in County ...

Springfield writer Rex Ybañez shares the story behind a poem he wrote that blends culture, Spam, breakfast, jazz and a few other ingredients.

City of Asylum, the Northside-based nonprofit that provides assistance to exiled writers, was among many arts organizations ...

This passion led her to study jazz poetry — a genre in which poetry’s rhythms and cadences merge seamlessly with musical improvisation. Through an in-depth research project, “Rhythm, Accent, Mood: The ...